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Scottish Sun
07-05-2025
- Scottish Sun
Boxer Tyson Fury's dad John faces trial over claims he drove down closed motorway lane
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) BOXER Tyson Fury's dad faces trial next year over claims he drove down a closed motorway lane. Ex-bare knuckle fighter John, 59, is accused of ignoring signs it was shut for safety reasons. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Ex-bare knuckle fighter John Fury faces trial next year Credit: Getty 2 John was in his son's corner when Tyson lost his first world titles fight with Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk last May Credit: AP His 1992 Mercedes 190E was picked up by a camera on a smart section of the M6 between Keele and Stoke last July. Smart motorways, which operate without a hard shoulder, have displays above each lane indicating if it is open. If it is closed, the screen displays a red 'X', with all traffic forced to move across. He was charged via post but is said to have failed to give details to Staffordshire Police about who was driving. Mr Fury, of Wilmslow Cheshire, did not appear at North Staffordshire Justice Centre yesterday. But the prosecution said he had submitted a hand-written plea of not guilty to two offences. A trial date was set for February 23 next year. Fury was in his son's corner when Tyson lost his first world titles fight with Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk last May.
The Irish Sun
07-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Irish Sun
Boxer Tyson Fury's dad John faces trial over claims he drove down closed motorway lane
BOXER Tyson Fury's dad faces trial next year over claims he drove down a closed motorway lane. Ex-bare knuckle fighter John, 59, is accused of ignoring signs it was shut for safety reasons. 2 Ex-bare knuckle fighter John Fury faces trial next year Credit: Getty 2 John was in his son's corner when Tyson lost his first world titles fight with Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk last May Credit: AP His 1992 Mercedes 190E was picked up by a camera on a smart section of the M6 between Keele and Stoke last July. Smart motorways, which operate without a hard shoulder, have displays above each lane indicating if it is open. If it is closed, the screen displays a red 'X', with all traffic forced to move across. He was charged via post but is said to have failed to give details to Staffordshire Police about who was driving. READ MORE ON TYSON FURY Mr Fury, of Wilmslow Cheshire, did not appear at North Staffordshire Justice Centre yesterday. But the prosecution said he had submitted a hand-written plea of not guilty to two offences. A trial date was set for February 23 next year. Fury was in his son's corner when Tyson lost his first world titles fight with Ukraine's Most read in Boxing Tommy Fury's dad John made cruel comment about her 'not being a wife' - appearing to predict split YEARS before break up
The Drive
05-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Drive
Homemade Mercedes 190E Evo II Has a Twin-Turbo Ford Raptor Engine
I want to make something clear from the start: the Mercedes 190E you see in this Top Gear video is not an Evo II. The 1990 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evo II is one of the coolest sports sedans in history, a homologated DTM race car for the road that packed a 2.5-liter, Cosworth-tuned, 16-valve four-cylinder engine. It's a legend. But that legendary status makes it extraordinarily expensive nowadays, so tuner Dom Tucci decided to make a tribute car out of a bone-stock, $500 Mercedes 190E sedan. Now that it's almost finished, it's anything but an ordinary 190E. The car was stripped down to its bare chassis, given extensive custom bodywork to match the Evo II's, and had its entire interior upgraded. It has the same swoopy fender flares, the same massive rear wing, and similar wheels. If you saw it up close at a car meet, you'd probably be able to spot its differences from a real Evo II. However, if you saw it driving around, you'd think it was the real deal. Top Gear Inside, it's similar but not exact. Its black leather Recaros are similar to the Evo II's seats, and so are some of the auxiliary gauges. But the actual gauges are all new, it has a completely different shifter, and its Blaupunkt headunit is meant to look old-school but has newfangled tech like Bluetooth connectivity. But you don't want to hear about seats and gauges. You want to hear about its engine. Rather than the buzzy, motorsport-bred, Cosworth-tuned engine from the original, this tribute packs a rather blasphemous 3.0-liter, twin-turbocharged V6 from a Ford F-150 Raptor. It naturally required some extensive fabrication to fit the pickup truck engine in there, with custom mounting points and new plumbing for the turbos. According to Tucci, though, the Raptor engine was a fitting choice, as it's only two degrees away from Cosworth's original: It was built by Ford, and Ford has worked with Cosworth a bunch over the years. That's a stretch, but I see where he's going with it. Top Gear The stock Raptor engine makes 450 horsepower and 510 lb-ft of torque—significantly more than the old Cosworth four-cylinder's 232 horsepower and 181 lb-ft. In turn, this tribute would blow the doors off a real Evo II in a straight line. It sounds worse, though. Even with the exhaust work that's been done to it, it just sounds like a generic tuned V6, completely lacking the original's character. Tributes like this one are cool, and often necessary, as the original classics they're based on can be far too expensive for normal folks to buy. The most recent Evo II to sell on Bring a Trailer required $328,000 to take it home. Got tips? Send 'em to tips@ Nico DeMattia is a staff writer at The Drive. He started writing about cars on his own blog to express his opinions when no one else would publish them back in 2015, and eventually turned it into a full-time career.
